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The Little Designer with UniArt

The Little Designer Workshop invites your kids ages 9 – 12 years old to explore their talents in fashion and art!

The Founder/Artist of Uniart “Hala Jafar” will mentor your kids throughout the workshop and teach them fashion design skills, and how to incorporate art in fashion. In addition to teaching them the steps of the creative thinking process.

The workshop will include traditional and interactive learning methods in addition to weekly assignment to practice at home.

“Your name, my love, was more beautiful in the warden’s mouth
Your face, my love, was more beautiful in the executioner’s hand
Your voice, my love, was more beautiful while wet with love’s flames
You were more beautiful, my love; more beautiful”
– Mu’in Bseiso

In contrast to dominant literary styles, the Palestinian poet Mu’in Bseiso was keen to give the character of the Fedayee and the freedom fighter a social dimension—a character he was familiar with due to his own political history. He was hence able to write his autobiography Descent into the water: Palestinian notes from Arab exile (1980) to embody the outsets of the Palestinian revolutionary process after 1948

Taking the works of Mu’in — also known as the Poet of the Palestinian Revolution, When the Rifle’s Soul is Poetry is a reading session in Palestinian literature to examine the development of the freedom fighter’s character, through readings of his poetry, drama, and prose

Who is the freedom fighter? What’s their identity, and what are their beliefs? Did their goals differ? Have they traded faith for expediency? Was their revolution suppressed, or were they stripped of their ambition to simply become an icon?

In these sessions, we will focus on how this character was portrayed, from the Nakba of 1948, the Naksa of 1967 and the departure from Lebanon in 1982. We will examine what impact Palestinian art and literature have had — in its documentation of events related to Palestinian people and their political history — on forming a collective imagination of the Fedayee

The reading group will be facilitated by the researcher Omar Bseiso on Monday, July 22, and Monday, July 29 at the MMAG Foundation

The sessions are free and open to all, and will be conducted in Arabic

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Creative practitioners can sign up to our eighth learning workshop “Designing with others”.

As designers, we always aim to create a product which perfectly matches the specifications we give to our makers and often misinterpret the unseen parts such as hand or machine limitations, material unavailability and technical savoir-faire. What if we ignored the outcome for an instant and rather looked at the process and how we communicated our design intentions to our collaborators, whether they are designers, artisans or suppliers, in our local context?

Hiwar Workshop: “On Art Archives in Jordan”
At The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts
Workshops start from July 13 till August 3, 2019
Deadline for Applications: July 6

“Hiwar Workshops” is an annual program by The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts that provides mentorship and a space for innovative cultural discussion and creative production for emerging artists in Jordan and the region. With a focus on the collection of artworks at the National Gallery, this year, art practitioners from all backgrounds and experiences are invited to join a 4-week program of readings, discussions, and technical experimentation, followed by an exhibition.

Selected participants will work closely with art mentors in a series of workshops that will allow them a space to realize their projects and share them with the general public. During the workshops participants will learn how to present, discuss and negotiate their field and leave with new ideas, skills and connections that will hopefully add to the breadth of their practices.

Artists Ala Younis, Raed Ibrahim and Khaldoun Hijazin will be facilitating the workshops and will work as mentors for a select group of emerging artists.
– The workshops will be in Arabic and English. Translation will be available during the workshops.
– The workshop is free of charge.

TOPIC:
In this year’s program, with an emphasis on the permanent collection of the National Gallery, participating artists are invited to choose an artwork that has been produced in Jordan. Their chosen artwork will be taken as a starting point for investigating histories, lineages and tropes that emerge(d) within the art scene in Jordan. Ways into researching these works are supported by the workshop mentorship, as well as reading materials, discussions, and studio work. Through the process, participants analyze and respond to their selections using various critical, contextual, and archival materials.

The program culminates in a final exhibition at the National Gallery that presents the participants studies, writings and archival findings juxtaposed with the original work they chose to study, as well as the artwork they develop in response.

SELECTED PARTICIPANTS:
Art practitioners from all backgrounds are welcome to apply.
Applications should be emailed to hiwarartclub@gmail.com with the title: “On Art Archives in Jordan”, including the following requirements:
– Name and contact information.
– Short bio.
– Short text explaining your possible approach to the topic.
– Portfolio of 5 to 10 works on PDF format and should include work titles, dates and media.

Viewing the world through no eyes but those of the artist, this workshop will serve as a tool to help connect individuals with not only drawing and sculpture, but also aid in the formation of style and voice.

Participants will be exposed to traditional techniques as well as experimental ones in both drawing and sculpture.

The overarching theme of the workshop will be around the explorations of self through contemporary expression. An exploration of elements relating to “self” may include self-portraiture, symbolism, iconography, personal possessions, etc.

Applicants should be prepared with a basic understanding of drawing perspective and a previous attempt in sculpture.

The workshop will begin with observational drawing and sculpture, progressing into more experimental and surrealist work, branching the participants’ work away from each other. The work produced will be exhibited at the close of the workshop.

This workshop will be run in English, with available translation to Arabic.

The workshop will take place between June 15 and July 6.
Saturdays 2-6pm
Tuesdays 6-9pm

To apply, please send the following to drawingstudio@mmagfoundation.org with the subject title “Drawing Form and Sculpting Line”:
1) A brief letter explaining why you are interested in joining this workshop.
2) Up to 5 samples of your artwork. (not restricted to drawing or sculpture)
3) Your contact number.

Application deadline Tuesday, Jun 11.

* * * All MMAG workshops are free of charge * * *
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A native of Omaha, Nebraska in the United States of America, Josh Novak has been pursuing a life in the arts. Graduating from Doane University with a BA in Art with a Professional Emphasis in 2012 and an MFA from Fort Hays State University in 2016, it is his life’s goal to use his ceramic artwork to question and attempt to answer the obsessive actions and behaviors of not only American culture, but the world in which we live.
Josh has exhibited in regional, national, and international exhibitions. Seeking to voice his experiences to a national audience of his peers, Josh gave a lecture titled “The Illusion of Talent: How to Build Skill in Clay” at the 2015 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Conference (NCECA) in Providence, RI. Josh seeks to educate and inspire the next generation of creatives through his own personal experiences as an artist and educator.

Viewing the world through no eyes but those of the artist, this workshop will serve as a tool to help connect individuals with not only drawing and sculpture, but also aid in the formation of style and voice.

Participants will be exposed to traditional techniques as well as experimental ones in both drawing and sculpture.

The overarching theme of the workshop will be around the explorations of self through contemporary expression. An exploration of elements relating to “self” may include self-portraiture, symbolism, iconography, personal possessions, etc.

Applicants should be prepared with a basic understanding of drawing perspective and a previous attempt in sculpture.

The workshop will begin with observational drawing and sculpture, progressing into more experimental and surrealist work, branching the participants’ work away from each other. The work produced will be exhibited at the close of the workshop.

This workshop will be run in English, with available translation to Arabic.

The workshop will take place between June 15 and July 6.
Saturdays 2-6pm
Tuesdays 6-9pm

To apply, please send the following to drawingstudio@mmagfoundation.org with the subject title “Drawing Form and Sculpting Line”:
1) A brief letter explaining why you are interested in joining this workshop.
2) Up to 5 samples of your artwork. (not restricted to drawing or sculpture)
3) Your contact number.

Application deadline Tuesday, Jun 11.

* * * All MMAG workshops are free of charge * * *
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A native of Omaha, Nebraska in the United States of America, Josh Novak has been pursuing a life in the arts. Graduating from Doane University with a BA in Art with a Professional Emphasis in 2012 and an MFA from Fort Hays State University in 2016, it is his life’s goal to use his ceramic artwork to question and attempt to answer the obsessive actions and behaviors of not only American culture, but the world in which we live.
Josh has exhibited in regional, national, and international exhibitions. Seeking to voice his experiences to a national audience of his peers, Josh gave a lecture titled “The Illusion of Talent: How to Build Skill in Clay” at the 2015 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Conference (NCECA) in Providence, RI. Josh seeks to educate and inspire the next generation of creatives through his own personal experiences as an artist and educator.

“Drawing is not what you see, but what you make others see”. – Edgar Degas

The act of making unimaginable things visible through art, holds great possibilities, especially through today’s ever expanding realms of drawing and painting. These new possibilities can yield through the various modes of art: from naturalism, formalism, to avant gardism.

For instance, one could take Hokusai’s famous Great Wave of Kanagawa in 1830, where the artist exquisitely captured before us a dramatic moment of raging sea waves–a decade before photography was invented–resisting our physical limitations with time and sight. Another more recent and humorous example involving fluid matter and resistance in art, is Dana Schutz’ 2002 “sneeze paintings” that also realize this ‘making visible’ agency of art. In her case, painting didn’t only overcome our physical inability to record a passing moment of a sneezing person, but it also went at ridiculous odds with the tradition of portraiture as a paradigm that had always promoted status quo ideas of the suitable and beautiful.

Among other uses, drawing and painting for centuries have been used as a means for representing certain subject matters that are given precedence over others, in what Foucault describes as Discourse or Discursive Knowledge. These two concepts in his system point to the parameters set by the dominant group of a given culture that regulate visibility, potentiality, morality and action. In this sense, the act of crossing the conventional through art and creating something ‘new’, becomes more than a mere instance of creative egoism. It is about shaking the established threshold of knowledge/power relations, as to allow for the emergence of new truths to float amongst us.

Studio sessions will combine traditional and alternative approaches to drawing and painting, through experimental exercises incorporating the use of colored water flows, high-shutter speed photography, as well as explorations of through-water sight, performances and other experiments.

The workshop will take place between June 16 and July 6:
Sundays and Wednesdays 5:00–-8:00 pm

To apply, please send the following to drawingstudio@mmagfoundation.org with the subject title: “The Liquid Art of Forming the Formless”
1)A short bio .
2)A brief letter explaining why you are interested in joining this workshop.
3)Samples of your artwork.
4)Your contact number.

Application Deadline: Tuesday, June 11.

* * * All MMAG workshops are free of charge * * *
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Khaldoun Hijazin is a Jordanian visual artist and a faculty member at the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Jordan. In 2010 he received his BA in Visual Arts with a concentration in drawing and painting from the University of Jordan. Later in 2014 Hijazin earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from Boston at SMFA – Tufts University. He has numerous participations in art exhibitions and workshops in Jordan and abroad, including the cities of Beirut, Rome, and Boston. In addition, Hijazin has been working with several art institutions in Jordan curating a number of contemporary cultural and artistic programs.

In a 4-day course, students will create art using different materials in fun and memorable exercises built on maximizing the student’s creative expression. The course is built on prompt-based activities that put ‘fun’ back in the fundimentals of art! Different mediums will be introduced to the students including graphite pencils, soft pastels, oil pastels, watercolours, acrylics and sculpture. Students will be creating and finalising at least one artwork a day. The first day focuses on fun drawing techniques. Day 2 allows students to experiment with sculpture making. Day 3 is dedicated to a fun day with watercolours, and on Day 4, participants will be painting their sculptures from day 2 using Acrylic paints.

Aims:

• To help students develop a range of technical skills and develop their creative thinking

• To develop and refine ideas and learn how to evaluate progress

• To develop core skills that have a wide range of creative applications

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this course students will be able to:

Develop a creative practice and thought and enhance knowledge of materials, techniques and processes through exploration.

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This Summer Program is specially designed for teens (ages 14-18) who are interested in and looking to pursue an education in design, architecture & fine arts. Students can choose one or more of the following courses:

Fashion Design

Instructor: Edelina Joyce

The aim of this course is to give those interested in fashion design an introductory look into the design process, which will result in the design development of their own capsule collection, and the creation of their own textile surface designs.

As part of the course the participant will experiment and present upon their research and observations in order to build mood boards based on their inspiration, followed by a capsule of silhouette designs and textile surface designs. Additional techniques in the course will include: research analysis, concept formation, historical fashion eras, mood boards, drawing, designing, fabric awareness, 3D design on a mannequin, use of specialised machinery, stitch and sampling techniques; as well as visual and verbal presentation.

By the end of the course students will have gained a brief insight into the fashion design process, creating a capsule collection of designs, mood boards, basic machine and surface decoration techniques such as stitching, seaming, pressing and appliqué/reverse appliqué methods.

This course is designed for teens that are curious about Interior design and decoration. Students will learn how to differentiate between decorating a space and designing a space to become functional and aesthetic.

In this workshop participants will be introduced to Arabic calligraphy and the form and origin of letters. Participants will be introduced to Ru’qah and Diwani script.

Methods: Lectures, Design studio working sessions

Requirements: TBA

Jewellery Design & Making

Instructor: Carmela Pipicelli

This course is designed for teens that are curious about Interior design and decoration. Students will learn how to differentiate between decorating a space and designing a space to become functional and aesthetic.

In this inclusive visual arts course, participants will be introduced to different mediums used in the plastic arts to help in broadening portfolios. In 8 days, participants will experiment with different styles of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

The 2-day drawing course will touch on live drawing, pencil drawing, and coloured pencil drawing. We then go to the painting section of the course where in the first half, participants will learn the basics of colour theory and apply their learnings in experiments with watercolours, the second half finds them creating a work on canvas in Acrylic paint. In the final part of the course, participants will be exposed to sculpture making in clay. Students will learn the basics of creating good armature and manipulating clay. Students will be provided with images taken from art history and nature to learn and draw inspiration from.